A Rambling Righting Riley - Shauna Riley Poet Free verse

All Consuming Questions

Questions
Like poison injected, coursing through my veins
Like soot inhaled, choking the air I breathe

Questions 
Like screaming, deafening in my ears
Like oiled cogs and gears, cranking in my head

Questions 
Like thick, enveloping fog, blurring my vision
Like a ravenous cancer, eating and spreading 

Questions
Like a metallic taste, needing to be spit out
Like flooding my dreams, stealing my sleep

Questions
All consuming power, sealed behind ruby lips
Sown tightly shut, with needle and thread



Shauna Riley 1-21-11

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Carol Sunshine Brown June 30, 2011 at 5:13 AM A belated congratulations A on your win in Brian Strand's "One Off" contest. Love, Carol

Stuck In Sepia June 25, 2011 at 2:02 AM Short but potent!

Kash Poet June 20, 2011 at 8:17 PM An insightful write..enjoyed.Congrats on your win Shauna.

Jslambert Mister Roboto June 18, 2011 at 3:18 AM this one is the winner winner chicken dinner! Nice! Metallic taste yuck!:)

Andrea Dietrich June 17, 2011 at 9:54 PM Constance, the name at the bottom makes me think this was a poem about this person? Full of emotion and pain. Congrats on your excellent win. A Rambling Righting Riley - Shauna Riley June 17, 2011 at 11:05 PM Nope this isn't Constance...this is "A Rambling Righting Riley"....Shauna Riley...thanks!

Linda-Marie Sweetheart June 17, 2011 at 6:25 AM Congrats on your first place win in the contest with another excellent entry luv..enjoy..top billing..

Nette Onclaud June 17, 2011 at 12:14 AM sunny congrats on your top win in brian's "off , one" , shauna... we are all no.1 here in the contest! :) huggs